This package is ideal for academic researchers, corporations, planning groups, or government agencies that want to do forecasting and planning. This package contains a vast amount of information from the 1990, 2000 and the 2010 censuses, and the current Estimates and 5- year Projections. Sometimes it is sufficient to merely look at current estimates and projections, but often you need to review past trends in order to appropriately plan for the future. With the Planners Package Plus, you can explore population and housing trends from 1990 to the current year and even projected out 5 additional years -- all in the 2010 boundaries. You also get consumer expenditures and profiles for this year and projected out five years.

One problem with working with different censuses and datasets is dealing with changing geographies over time. With the Planner Package Plus, we have resolved this issue - all of the data is converted to 2010 boundaries. You can quickly and easily compare many levels of geography - county, tract, block group, and zip code - you can even run radii around a given coordinate. The products in this package span four decades of censuses and the estimates and projections for optimal time series analysis. The package includes:

A key component for time series analysis is having all of the data normalized to the exact same boundaries. For a discussion of methodology for the 1990 normalization process, please click here.

2010 PLANNERS PACKAGE (basic)

The basic planners package has three decades of data: 2000 Long Form in 2010 Boundaries, 2010 American Community Survey and Current Year Estimates / 5-Year Projections. It is an excellent option for researchers and planners who only need data from more recent decades and do not want the 1990 datasets that comes with the Planners Package Plus. Like the Planner Package Plus, you get all available levels of geography including county, tract, block group, and zip code. This package includes:

This package is ideal for academic researchers who want to place their findings in the 2000
boundaries because they are aligning data with existing survey data or other data sets that were
collected in the 2000 boundaries. We offer a wide array of information based on the 1980, 1990,
and the 2000 censuses. With the Planners Package Plus, you can explore population and housing
trends from 1980 to 2000.

One problem with working with different censuses and datasets is dealing with changing geographies over time. With the Planner Package Plus, we have resolved this issue - all of the data is converted to 2000 boundaries. You can quickly and easily compare many levels of geography - county, tract, block group, and zip code - you can even run radii around a given coordinate. The products in this package span four decades for optimal time series analysis. The package includes:

For a discussion of methodology for the 1980 in 2000 boundaries, please click here.
For a discussion of methodology for the 1990 normalization process, please click here.

2000 PLANNERS PACKAGE (basic)

The basic Planners Package has two decades of data: 1990 and 2000. It is an excellent option for
researchers and planners who only need data from more recent decades and do not want the 1980
dataset that comes with the Planners Package Plus. Like the Planner Package Plus, you get all
available levels of geography including county, tract, block group, and zip code. This package
includes: